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If you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors, you can visit the many unusual and fascinating archives in England's largest county. As well as tracing when your ancestors were born, married and died, you can explore how they lived, how they spent their leisure time and what their home life was like. Rachel Bellerby's invaluable guide will introduce you to places that hold a wealth of information about Yorkshire's past, and the records you find in these archives will bring your research to life. Whatever you would like to discover more about, from fairground travellers to Romany gypsies, from working deep underground in a mine to making a living from the North Sea, there is so much to learn. The many different archives that welcome family history researchers are explored here and explained. Often these archives are overlooked, yet they contain revealing information about the people who called Yorkshire their home. Dozens of places, from tiny museum archives to large research centres, are open for your research. Tracing your Yorkshire ancestors has never been more exciting.
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Rachel Bellerby is an experienced journalist who specialises in the local and family history of Yorkshire. She has published many articles on these subjects in the UK and overseas, including features in Ancestors, BBC History Magazine and Your Family Tree. She is the author of Chasing The Sixpence: Memories of Bradford Mill Workers. Rachel Bellerby was born in Yorkshire and has lived in the county all her life.
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This is an excellent introduction on a hitherto unexplored topic. It reminds the reader that museums and libraries can be as important as record offices in family tree research. And it also shows that FH is not just about looking for names, but for exploring the wider milieu of ancestors' lives, for example, looking at company magazines and so forth. The author tackles work, religion, leisure, crime, WW2, all in the Yorkshire context, and also gives a little Yorkshire history as context.
A few minor caveats. The British Army was created in the mid seventeenth century, not the 1750s as stated here, and the Borthwick Institute is shown in a picture at its present address, but the address given is its former one. I also thought that a few old pictures could have been used (they are almost wholly modern ones) and a few pictures of people (which FH is all about, surely) - perhaps the author's ancestors (it is stated that her origins are in Yorkshire). A better index would have helped, too.
On the whole, though, this is a useful book for those with Yorkshire ancestors.
A few minor caveats. The British Army was created in the mid seventeenth century, not the 1750s as stated here, and the Borthwick Institute is shown in a picture at its present address, but the address given is its former one. I also thought that a few old pictures could have been used (they are almost wholly modern ones) and a few pictures of people (which FH is all about, surely) - perhaps the author's ancestors (it is stated that her origins are in Yorkshire). A better index would have helped, too.
On the whole, though, this is a useful book for those with Yorkshire ancestors.
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Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors
26 Feb 2010
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This is a must for genealogists. In fact that is where I got the information that such a book was available. It is interesting reading and you really get a background for the occupations and lifestyles of the Yorkshire people.
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